Search
The 'Search' tab-page has 6 sub tab-pages: Amateur Radio Countries, Callsigns, Admin Areas, Places, IOTA, Position.
Each enables you to search the various database and tables in many different ways.
Amateur Radio Countries
The 'Amateur Radio Countries' tab-page lets you filter a list of Amateur Radio Counties: those entities in the ADIF country-entity list, or the ARRL DXCC list. You can output a list of countries with a specific status, in a specific continent, zone, or region. Results are returned in the 'Tables' tabpage, and will include columns for Bearing and Distance that are calculated with the Reference Position selected in the panel 'Select a Reference Position for Bearing and Distance' on the 'Amateur Radio Countries' tab-page.
Callsigns
Want to know more about an Amateur Radio callsign? Two ways of doing this are provided here:
1/ Callsign Parsing - the program will attempt to identify the callsign from its characters, prefix, and suffix. Most callsigns are catered for, and extra information on the Home Call (the section without slash-values), Prefix, Appendix, Adif-Entity number, Country Name, Continent, Region-Admin Name, CQ Zone, ITU Zone, WAE Extra Country status, Time Zone Offset, Country centroid Latitude and Longitude, Distance, Bearing, Country DXCC Status, US 3rd Party Status, ARRL QSL Buro Status, IARU Region, and DXCC Notes. Bearing and Distance that are calculated with the Reference Position selected in the panel 'Select a Reference Position for Bearing and Distance' on the 'Callsigns' page.
2/ Callsign Lookup - the program will try to lookup the callsign in the HamQTH Database. To do this, you will need to have already registered at that website, and entered your username and password in the 'HamQTH.Com Login' boxes of the Program Options window. If successful, the server will return some or all of the following fields: Name, QTH, Country, Adif, Mailing Address, Location Details, QSL Methods (LOTW, eQSL, Buro, Direct), Latitude, Longitude, Distance, Bearing, DXCC Status, US 3rd Party, ARRL QSL Buro, IARU Region, Notes. If a position is returned, a Marker will be added to the 4 main maps.
Admin Areas
'Real World' admin areas can be browsed in the main 'Admin Areas' tabpage, but here in the 'Search > Admin Areas' tabpage, you can search for entities in the databases of Ham or Real World lists. To perform a Search, select one of the fields by using its radio-button, then enter some text (at least 3 characters) in the Search Text box. Select the appropriate 'Search Options', and then press the 'Search Admin Areas' button. Results are shown in the 'Tables' tab.
Places
The 'Places' search-tabpage provides search facilities for Place Names within a database of over 50,000 world city names, each of which has a population greater than 5000.
To perform a Search, select one of the fields by using its radio-button, then enter some text (at least 3 characters) in the Search Text box. Select the appropriate 'Search Options', and then press the 'Search' button. Results are shown in the 'Tables' tab.
Right-click a line in the 'Tables' tab for more options. Right-click a map-marker to compare its position with other data-sets, or perform other tasks.
IOTA
The 'IOTA' tab-page provides search facilities for IOTA groups throughout the world. You can search for field-values in the IOTA database, or search for an IOTA bounding box that contains a specified Grid Locator or Latitude/Longitude position.
To perform a Search, select one of the fields by using its radio-button, then enter some text (at least 3 characters) in the Search Text box. Select the appropriate 'Search Options', and then press the 'Search IOTA Groups' button. Results are shown in the 'Tables' tab.
Right-click a line in the 'Tables' tab for more options: you can plot the centroid as a Marker, or plot the group boundaries as a polygon. Right-click a map-marker to compare its position with other data-sets, or perform other tasks.
If you have right-clicked a Marker and chosen 'Position-Referenced Browsing', the position of the Marker that you right-clicked will be entered next to the radio-button marked 'Marker Position', in all of the 'Select a Reference Position for Bearing and Distance' panels. If you then select a table to browse in the box on the right of the page, and click 'Browse Selected Table', that table will be shown in the 'Tables' tab-page, and the entries in the 'Distance' and 'Bearing' columns will all be referenced on the position of the Marker that you right-clicked.
Position
The 'Position' tab-page provides search facilities for a specified Grid Locator or Latitude/Longitude position. It operates slightly differently from the other search tab-pages, as it does not return results in the 'Tables' tab-page, but shows then on the same 'Position' search tab-page: position, state or province (if available), county (if available), grid locator, and the distance and bearing to the Home Position.
A position search will place a Marker on all four maps. A Grid Locator search will place a boundary box on the Overlay, Online, and World maps. Overlay and World maps only show 4 character boundary boxes, and will convert a 6 character to a 4 character box.
The Online Map will show both 4 and 6 character boundary boxes.
Right-click a map-marker or boundary box to compare its position with other data-sets.